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" People like to talk more than they like to act. They like to sit there and complain and vent. Somehow they think that changes things, when it doesn't. "
James Patterson
People
Talk
Think
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" The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies. "
James Patterson
More
Book
People
" Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong? "
James Patterson
Life
Home
Achievement
" I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose. "
James Patterson
Fun
I Am
Think
" The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun. "
James Patterson
Habit
Job
Parents
" I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics. "
James Patterson
Night
Reading
School
" I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk. "
James Patterson
Cats
Friends
Love
" The more you read, the better you get at it. "
James Patterson
You
Better
Get
" There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice. "
James Patterson
Practice
Said
Collaboration
" I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot. "
James Patterson
Smile
Though
Lot
" It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. "
James Patterson
Find
Job
Like
" Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military. "
James Patterson
Thanksgiving
Story
Amazing
" There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life. "
James Patterson
People
Want
Escape
" If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead. "
James Patterson
Chapter
Writing
Move
" Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that. "
James Patterson
Play
Key
Work Hard
" I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers. "
James Patterson
Joy
Children
Time
" Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts. "
James Patterson
Beast
People
Peculiar
" A good love story always keeps the pot boiling. "
James Patterson
Love
Story
Always
" For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena. "
James Patterson
Vampire
Living
Me
" A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and deeper because it is eternal is very powerful. "
James Patterson
People
Idea
Like
" There are a lot of things we as individuals can't do much about. We can't solve global warming as individuals, or health care problems, but as individuals, most of us can get our kids reading. We can do that. "
James Patterson
Us
Problems
Reading
" I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation. "
James Patterson
Would
Writer
Operation
" Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well. "
James Patterson
Ride
Great
Say
" Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater? "
James Patterson
Why
You
Business
" It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, 'Let me try something else,' and I wrote a mystery - but I didn't know much about it. "
James Patterson
Know
Me
Try